This is the continuation from the thread "XFCE weather plugin does not work"
2014-10-18 10:03 GMT+03:00 Gevisz <gev...@gmail.com>: > On Fri, 17 Oct 2014 23:37:16 +0100 > David W Noon <dwn...@ntlworld.com> wrote: > >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> On Fri, 17 Oct 2014 22:33:45 +0100, Neil Bothwick (n...@digimed.co.uk) >> wrote about "Re: [gentoo-user] Re: XFCE weather plugin does not work" >> (in <20141017223345.16c96...@digimed.co.uk>): >> >> > On Fri, 17 Oct 2014 21:13:52 +0000 (UTC), James wrote: >> > >> >> And last, can any patch that ends in .patch be applied to the >> >> intended ebuild or does the gentoo ebuild auther have to put some >> >> special code into an (EAPI-5) ebuild to facilitate user patches? >> > >> > AFAIR the ebuild simply has to call epatch_user() in src_unpack() >> > and any matching patches in /etc/portage/patches are applied. >> >> The usual place is src_prepare(). >> >> I have prepared some patches from the Xfce repository with line >> addressing to match the Gentoo sources tarball. I attach a tarball of >> theses patches that can be untarred in /etc/portage/patches/. > > I have unpacked your patches to /etc/portage/patches as described here: > http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki//etc/portage/patches > and then run # emerge xfce4-weather-plugin > > After restarting xfce4, the weather-plugin started to work. Thank you. > > Nevertheless, just > # emerge --update --deep --with-bdeps=y --newuse --backtrack=90 --ask world > instead of # emerge xfce4-weather-plugin > did not worked. > >> The ebuild should have the following lines added: >> >> src_prepare() { >> epatch_user >> } > > I have not done this relying on the promise by Greg Kubaryk > that the ebuild is epatch_user enabled. > >> Don't forget to redo the manifest for the ebuild. > > I never dealt with ebuilds on a maintaner level. > So, may I ask if it is really necessary and for which purpose. Just after emerging xfce4-weather-plugin with the patches provided by David W Noon, I have noticed that I lost all my alternative keyboard layouts. I tried to set them anew via xfce4 Keyboard Layouts Plugin version 0.5.6 but there is no keyboard layout that suits my keyboard. Unfortunately, unmerging xfce4-weather-plugin did not help. Another thing I did just before re-emerging xfce4-weather-plugin was a routine system update. This time only net-dns/libidn package was updated from version 1.28 to version 1.29, and before that update my alternative keyboard layouts were still present, as I remember using them just after the update but before rebooting the system. So, it also may be that updating libidn package caused the damage. I remember that, while installing Gentoo about 15 months ago, I set my keyboard layout not via an xfce4 plugin but somewhere in the X11 settings. (At that time I had gnome2 instead of xfce4 anyway). So, may be now, re-emerging xfce4-weather-plugin, or trying to set the alternative keyboard layout anew, I have created some xfce4 configuration file that shadows X11 (or old gnome2) settings that xfce4 used for keyboard layout previously. Any thoughts?
